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14 September 2015

A350 cabin completion and deliveries from China?

Airbus is
already eyeing an expanded future role for its planned A330 Completion and
Delivery Centre (C&DC) in Tianjin, with the airframer keen for the site to
also support its A350 model.

C&DC will
cover the aircraft completion activities including reception, cabin
installation, aircraft painting, engine run and flight test, as well as
aircraft delivery and customer flight acceptance.

Under the
project, the A330 Family aircraft to be completed at the A330 C&DC Tianjin
will be assembled in Toulouse but will be painted and have their cabin
furnished and installed in Tianjin.

Speaking to
Flight International in Beijing, Airbus China COO Rafael González Ripoll said
the company hopes to have broken ground on the widebody facility by next
May/2016. It will be connected to its existing A320 FAL by a 600m-long road.

The target
for the Delivery Centre announced in July is to complete its 1st
A330 in October/2017, ramping up over a period of around 3 years to a production
rate of 2 aircraft per month.

González
Ripoll said Airbus intends not only to complete A330s and A330neos at the
centre, but also to undertake work on
the A350.

“It´s a great
opportunity for Chinese industry to make a step change in its capacity to
develop cabin interior components from seats, galleys, panels and everything
you can imagine”, he said.

Airbus will
invest CNY900 million ($141 million) in the widebody completions project, which
also should provide around 300 new jobs.

Source: Manuel Belleli

Airbus is
participating in the 16th Aviation Expo China (Beijing Airshow), in Beijing
from 16-19/September.

Airbus has a
significant industrial presence in China with the A320 Final Assembly Line in
Tianjin, the Airbus (Beijing) Engineering Centre and the Composite
Manufacturing Centre in Harbin.

Based on the
article “Airbus envisions A350 completions at planned Tianjin facility”
published in Flight International.